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  • Kidney & Kidney/Pancreas Transplant

    Louisiana's first kidney transplant was performed at Ochsner in 1973. Both solitary pancreas and combined kidney-pancreas transplantation services are offered at Ochsner. And whenever possible, the portal venous-enteric drainage technique…

  • Kidney Basics

    How Your Kidneys Work Why Are the Kidneys So Important? Where Are the Kidneys and How Do They Function? What Are Some of the Causes of Chronic Kidney Disease? How…

  • Kidney Cancer

    The Nephrology Department cares for many patients with cancer, usually to treat kidney insufficiency due to cancer treating drugs. Physicians also treat a specific cancer of the kidney called Renal…

  • Kidney Stones

    How common are kidney stones? What is a kidney stone? How are stones diagnosed? What can I do to decrease the risk of kidney stones? How common are kidney stones?…

  • Kidney Tests

    Three simple tests to check for kidney disease More than 26 million Americans-one in nine adults-have kidney disease. Millions more are at increased risk for getting it, and most don't…